deradicalization

I will say I believe that...

Deradicalization happens post-conflict.

It's really hard to do full deradicalization.

The UAE was not an active conflict.

So I started out being interested in the history of ideas and the social and political roles of intellectuals.

My first book that you mentioned, The Other God That Failed, which is subtitled Hans Freier and the Deradicalization of German Conservatism, was a study of why intellectuals in this case on the German right in the interwar period, very smart German intellectuals, were attracted by their critique of liberal capitalist parliamentary welfare state democracy to embrace totalitarian solutions to the problems of modernity.

and how that led some of them to embrace, at least temporarily, National Socialism, how their experience of National Socialism led them to become disillusioned with those radical solutions and more open to liberal democratic societies.

So I was actually originally interested in that question on the political left.